The brave new world of computers has a huge problem: hackers.
In the so-called Sony hack, for example, exactly seven years ago, they sent masses of confidential e-mails and digital documents from the Japanese company with extremely embarrassing gossip from the higher floors of the film world to the public.
Stephan Finsterbusch
Editor in business.
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Actors' and managerial salaries became known, secret negotiations and contractual clauses. It was far from the first data theft, but it was the most serious to date. To this day, the masterminds remain in the dark, and to this day we don't really know what to do about data thieves. Hackers now strike every minute. Governments, defense and secret services, diplomats, researchers and also board members in companies therefore still like to let their secretariats grip very old, stiff keys for very special documents.
A beautiful old Underwood, a Continental, an Adler or a Triumph is still more than just a collector's item today.
The typewriter is alive, in the small and hidden, but it simply cannot be brought down.
No power connection and no internet access, no storage, no digital traces - where there is nothing in the virtual world, nothing can be lost.
In the era of super-fast computers and global fiber optic cables, machines with their levers, rollers and cogs are not the solution, but they are good tools for mysterious purposes.
They are heavy and much too big;
their outputs no longer manageable.
In times of hustle and bustle, and pandemic, paper is far too patient.
But still sure.